Resources

A tookit designed to support capacity building and confidence of care workers when responding to residents of aged care facilities with common mental health issues.

This report explores quality from the perspectives of older people, their family members and care workers. This provides an outline of the factors known to build social and emotional wellbeing in aged care settings.

University of Queensland researchers are using Virtual Reality technology to reduce behavioural and psychological problems in older people - especially those living in aged care facilities or with neurological disorders.

If you’re concerned about an older person being anxious or depressed, or just not coping, then it is important to take the first step. In this video, people share their experiences of talking to older adults they were worried about.

This information sheet provides tips and strategies for opening up a conversation with an older person experiencing anxiety, depression, or not coping.

The Geriatric Depression Scale is a 15-item self-report measure of depression in older adults. Available and validated in multiple languages. Available as an app.

The Geriatric Anxiety Inventory is a simple tool with sound psychometric properties which allows screening for dimensional anxiety in older adults who may have anxiety, yet have not been properly diagnosed.

Shorter version of the 42-item Depression Anxiety Stress Scales that was designed to measure three related negative emotional states of depression, anxiety and tension/stress.

Due to the alarmingly high rates of depression and anxiety in residential aged care facilities, this submission focuses on practical and achievable solutions to improve the mental health and wellbeing of aged care residents.

Information and tools for Commonwealth Home Support Programme service providers to support them to prepare, implement and evaluate the embedding of wellness and reablement in their organisation.